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I use NZ Post and just have 2 locations (rather than zones) set. The downside with how I'm doing it is that the buyer is presented with those two options at checkout i.e. they choose rural or non-rural. I've never had anyone choose the incorrect option as most people these days know whether their address is one or the other. I can always email them if they get it wrong. So you could maybe use 4 locations, South Island Rural SIR, South Island Urban SIU, and same for North Island NIR, NIU or whatever, and for each, the corresponding pricing structure like 1:5.00, 2:7.50 etc. Here's a working example for a product - say the product's real weight is 90g - I ignore the real weight and ask myself "how many can I send for $5, how many for $7.50" etc. Say the answer is 4 items (maximum of 4 of the 90g products fit in a DLE size box) then I take the 1kg (1000g and divide by 4) and make the weight for each item in Catalog/Products 250g. If someone orders 5, the weight flips over to the $7.50, and so on. It's a work-around. Might work for you, might not, but has been OK for me. Cheers

Hi Tobynator, I'm in NZ too, so know where you're coming from - we seem to have particularly complex shipping options here with urban & rural, different islands etc. I had to use the weight-based shipping module, as mentioned by Basara. Yours might be different and will depend on number and type of products but to give you an idea, I created two locations in System/Localization/Locations, one for rural, one for urban. Then in Extension/Shipping turn on the "default_weight" module. In there, under Additional Settings, you can specify the pricing for each of those locations based on the unit of weight you've got set for the cart (somewhere under System/Settings). I set mine to Kgs, so under Additional Settings, I have 1:5.00,2:7.50 for urban - this means 1kg is charged $5, 2kgs is $7.50. For Rural I used 1:8.00,2:12.00. Then you specify the weight of each product in Catalog/Products. It might work out OK for your products but in my case I had to "make up" weights so that multiples of the product would still fit into the pricing structure for the cost bracket in Additional Settings (mentioned above). If you have a lot of products, you might need to use Excel first to help get all the pricing & weight options sorted. Cheers, Rich.

Thanks Basara, I see what you mean about using a hidden field, but is there any way I can get it to automatically send the product name, SKU number, or URL address from the form, for the product they are viewing and commenting on? The same form is used by each product, so I was hoping there might be a way to have the form send that info when submitted - some kind of auto-magic code like "=product_name". Thanks!

Hi allI've created a simple product enquiry form, customers can complete if they want more info about a specific product. It shows for each product (I've added it to the default product page) and they complete fields for their name, email address, product name and comment. Is there some clever way I can have the product name (or even the URL of the page they're on) submitted automatically when they submit the form please, so they don't have to type the name of the product and I can remove that field from the form? I notice there's a "regular expression pattern" option for the field - what does that do - I can't see any info on that?

Hi all, hopefully there is a simple setting I have missed. I recently installed abantecart for my first look at it, on my test domain diygreenguru.com then discovered I couldn't add products to the cart. When I click the "Add to cart" button, I get to a "shopping Cart" screen which then says "Your shopping cart is empty" with a "continue" button. Clicking the "Cart" button at the top of the screen does the same.

Thinking I'd done something wrong during the install, I re-installed abantecart and the same thing happened. I've used 3 devices, 6 different browsers, cleared every browser setting like cookies etc and still can't add anything to the cart. Looks like a show-stopper at this stage - any ideas please? Using abantecart 1.2.15